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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Les -- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>That stat
came from a documentary, “Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need for Change.” It’s a
very well researched and thorough documentary, quotes several prominent
scientists including James Hansen. The next time I watch it, I’ll see if they
source the stat or if I misunderstood or misquoted what they were saying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>In 2007,
the report from the United Nations' blue-ribbon international panel of
climatologists declared <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html"
target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>global
warming an "unequivocal" fact</span></a>, <b><u>"very
likely"</u></b> caused by human activity ::: <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html?_r=1</a>.
Since 2007 no scientific body of national or international standing has
maintained a dissenting opinion on human-induced climate change. The fact is
most of the those claiming to debunk anthropogenic climate change are repeating
arguments that have already been debunked by climatologists and / or are
politicians and lobbyists taking the valid work of real scientists out of context.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>When I was
covering climate change in 2001 as a reporter, a climatologist told me 93
percent of climatologists said it was highly likely humans were causing climate
change above and beyond natural climate variations. The reading and research I’ve
done since then shows consensus among climatologists has continued to grow. So
the distinction may well be that climatologists, those who actually study and
research climate – versus other types of scientists who don’t, are virtually
certain this is the case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>The best scientific
source I’ve found for truth about climate change is a blog called RealClimate –
climate science from working climate scientists. That distinction is extremely
important given the misinformation promulgated by so many who are not climate
scientists. Check it out here ::: <a
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Happy
reading!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Shauna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: lespace@valornet.com [mailto:lespace@valornet.com] <br>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:59 PM<br>
To: SOKC list serv; Sustainability Issues in Oklahoma<br>
Cc: Shauna Struby<br>
Subject: Re: [ok-sus] Jim Roth unravels special interests on climate-change
bill<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I have a problem with "99% of the scientest claiming
humans cause climate change". This is simply not true and I have
doccumentation to prove it, and will share it with anyone who really wants to
know the truth. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Leslie (Les) Pace<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>CEM DSM LC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>---- Shauna Struby <sstruby@cox.net> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>> admire Jim Roth for attempting to make sense of the
confusing array of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> special interests lobbying on the complex
climate-change bill currently<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> before our nation's Senate. In an opinion piece in
the Journal Record<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>
<http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recID=100518> today, Roth<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> provides a rational and much-needed service to
Oklahoma by providing enough<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> facts and context to place this complicated issue in
perspective. Some<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> highlights:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * Environmental groups initially united are
now somewhat divided after<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> the House version passed. Some welcomed the bill,
while others criticized<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> the generous concessions to the coal and nuclear
energy lobbies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * One of the nation's most outspoken climate
scientists, NASA's James<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Hansen, warned, "The danger is that special
interests will dilute and torque<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> government policies, causing the climate to pass
tipping points, with grave<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> consequences for all life on the planet." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * No group exemplifies the level of interest
more than the American<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity [a front-group
with an oxymoron for a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> name]. Representing 48 mining firms, coal-hauling
railroads and coal-burning<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> power companies, ACCCE spent $9.95 million lobbying
in 2008. And that's just<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> the amount disclosed by the association, let alone
the 40 coal companies and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> related interests. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * Electricity is largest single source of
U.S. greenhouse gas<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> emissions, and the most carbon-intensive fuel, coal,
still provides half the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> nation's power. There's no technology today that
removes the carbon out of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> coal-fired power and many even question the
possibility of "clean coal." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * Green groups like the Sierra Club have been
joined by a new wave of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> interests from the American Academy of Pediatrics to
the Evangelical<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Environmental Network. Combine alternative energy
and environmental/health<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> lobbyists, and they are still outnumbered by all
other interests, more than<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> 8-to-1. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> * Do we move forward with this legislation,
even if imperfect, and try<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> to improve it as it goes along in the Senate? The
alternative choice is to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> have no comprehensive federal legislation and let
our children deal with it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Note: Ninety-nine percent (99%) of the world's
scientists say human-caused<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> climate change is happening now. Many are concerned
we'll experience<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> catastrophic consequences if we don't address the
problem immediately. One<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> of the world's preeminent climatologists, James
Hansen, mentioned above by<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Roth, has long predicted the changes we're seeing
now, and has been correct<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> in 100 percent of his predictions. The New Yorker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <http://www.newyorker.com/> published an
in-depth profile on Hansen in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> their June 29, 2009 issue, available online to
subscribers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> "The Catastrophist," by Elizabeth Kolbert,
offers details on Hansen's<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> predictions, his background and his concern that we
are past the tipping<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> point for what is known in scientific circles as
"dangerous anthropogenic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> interference" a.k.a D.A.I. From the article:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Hansen has now concluded, partly on the basis of his
latest modelling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> efforts and partly on the basis of observations made
by other scientists,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> that the threat of global warming is far greater
than even he had suspected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Carbon dioxide isn't just approaching dangerous
levels, it is already there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> Unless immediate action is taken -- including the
shutdown of all the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> world's coal plants within the next two decades --
the planet will be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> committed to change on a scale society won't be able
to cope with.'This<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> particular problem has become an emergency,' Hansen
said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>> Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></p>
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